My barometer of end times signs is no longer topped by the fact that injecting poison into one’s face is now a beauty treatment but that the MaryKateandAshleyOlsen empire is close to raking in a billion dollars in gross sales. A billion with a B (a thousand million dollars for UK Dopers). They are each worth an estimated $150 million according to the business section of the paper.
I’ll admit that they aren’t ugly-ugly but they aren’t anything special. The picture in the paper shows them in stringy hairdos and raccoon eye makeup that frankly looks kinda scary to me but I’ll grudgingly admit that they are adequate as 16 year old girls go if you are into that sort of thing. I’m not.
So is there no direct correlation between talent and income in child actors? As good buddy Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg said so eloquently their “big break was that they were able to say ‘I’m sowwy’ more cloyingly than anyone else at the audition.”
If you like treacle let’s compare them to Shirley Temple. Not everyone’s cup of cute but the kid busted her ass making a boatload of movies. She could sing and dance and act. She was wealthy too but not nearly on the scale the OTs. I suppose it’s all due to the fact that children now have more market group clout than adults did in the thirties and no one is afraid to pander directly to them.